Re: autoconf 2.50 fixes - gcc subdirectory only

["Zack Weinberg" <zackw at Stanford dot EDU>]

On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 02:15:49AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On May 26, 2001, "Zack Weinberg" <zackw@Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> 
> > I'm open to suggestions.  There is a regular expression in $4 and a
> > glob in $5, so using [] quotes is kind of risky...
> 
> I don't see why this would make any difference.  It's the caller that
> should quote such arguments properly.  Doing it in the macro itself
> will just lead to confusion later on, if part of the macro is factored
> out into other macros, for example.

I freely admit to not really understanding M4 quote rules unless I
spend an hour or so getting in tune with one specific example, and it
doesn't seem to generalize.  I have had bad luck with arguments which
are not quoted *both* in the macro, and in the macro's caller.  Dunno
if this is one of those places.

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